Six cool things you can still to do in Tucson this weekend (May 27-May 28)
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Among the events left this weekend - make use of that facial hair in Tombstone or chill with Cheech & Chong.
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This isn't a regular found footage viewing party.
This is the best of the best.
Nick Prueher and Joe Pickett return to Tucson with their Found Footage Festival this Saturday, with a lineup of VHS material scoured from thrift stores, yard sales and garbage bins around the country (according to the Facebook event page).
More details from the page:
Found Footage Festival: Volume 8 highlights include a collection of satanic panic videos from the 80s, including “The Law Enforcement Guide to Satanic Cults”; a star-studded Desert Storm parade sponsored by Taco Bell; outtakes and on-air bloopers from over ten years of North Dakota local news; and selections from David Letterman’s Video Collection, inherited by the Found Footage Festival when Dave retired.
The event starts at 8 p.m. at the Rialto Theatre, downtown. Tickets are $8-$10.
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Comedy duo Cheech Marin and Tommy Chong return to Tucson this Saturday, for a show at Casino del Sol that will most likely reflect on their iconic careers, break out some of their classic material and produce a full evening of marijuana jokes.
The nationwide tour comes at a time when both Cheech and Chong are pretty busy.
Marin just entered into an agreement with the city of Riverside, Calif., to house his Chicano art collection in one of its downtown buildings.
And a documentary on the two is in its final stages of production.
Cheech and Chong take the stage at 8 p.m.
More information can be found on Casino del Sol's website.
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The Loft, 3233 E. Speedway, is purging its current inventory of film posters with a sale this Saturday from 8 a.m to 11 a.m.
Posters will be $5 apiece.
Here is what they will be offering, according to the Facebook event page:
– Current posters of films that have ended their run during the month.
– Miscellaneous Film posters of films we did not show.
– Over 100 posters (at least 50 titles) from our current poster inventory.
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In the past six years, Randy Accetta and a group of supporters have transformed the Gabe Zimmerman Triple Crown into a trifecta for Tucson.
“I am a fan of Aristotle, who believed that healthy minds and healthy bodies create healthy citizenry. If I can do my part to make people healthier through fitness and raise funds in support of cultural, educational and social organizations, then I think I am making our city better,” said Accetta, director of the three-race event that will kick off with the 11th Annual TMC Meet Me Downtown 5K Night Run and Walk this Saturday at the Children’s Museum Tucson, 200 S. Sixth Ave.
Created to commemorate native Tucsonan Gabe Zimmerman, a lifelong runner and avid outdoorsman who was killed in the shooting of then-Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords in January 2011, the races have raised more than $150,000 for Child and Family Resources and other local charities.
Proceeds from the 2017 event will benefit the Children’s Museum Tucson, Tucson Symphony Orchestra, Educational Enrichment Foundation, Living Streets Alliance, Greater Tucson Leadership, Southern Arizona Roadrunners, Sonoran Desert Mountain Bicyclists and Beyond-Tucson Foundation, which was founded by Zimmerman’s father, Ross, as a single day of health-related outdoor activities designed to help the community move forward and heal after the shooting. That day has expanded into a year-round, commitment to individual and community wellness through the foundation and a coalition of partners including hospitals, health organizations, environmental advocacy groups and others.
Accetta said the Gabe Zimmerman Triple Crown segues perfectly with the foundation’s “Rx Formula” for optimal health, which is comprised of four pillars — explore nature, move regularly, nourish with healthy food and connect with one another as a community.
He emphasized that the intent was to provide a full calendar year of opportunity for progressive physical activity through the race series, beginning with a 5K and building to a 10K and then a half-marathon.
“Any number of medical experts will tell you that if you move for 10 minutes a day, you will have a healthier life, whether you just walk around the block or run a race,” Accetta said. “Races like this are great since setting a goal to go one mile can get you out the door when you don’t want to go. We want people to set a goal and be a part of something and change their lives and meet new people and go to new places. By walking or running, you can do all of that.”
In an additional effort to facilitate consistent activity and encourage community engagement, the foundation has instituted Beyond Challenge, which provides a card featuring incentives, discounts and prizes from merchants.
“This is about setting an intention, whether it be to spend more time with your kids outdoors or to complete a 5K or make healthy changes to your diet,” said Michelle Crow, director of the Beyond-Tucson Foundation. “You can sign up for the challenge and participate in various activities to win prizes, so it is a concrete way to help people achieve their goals.”
More information about Beyond Challenge and other free foundation health initiatives — including a 16-week walking study by Dequenesh Community Health that will begin Aug. 31 — is available from 4 to 7 p.m. every Thursday through September at the Santa Cruz River Farmers’ Market, 100 S. Avenida del Convento.
“We are doing controlled studies in terms not just of physical health, but mental health and social well-being since each affects the other,” Crow said.
The social element is at the forefront of the TMC Meet Me Downtown 5K Night Run and Walk, which welcomes runners and walkers of all ages and abilities, according to Ross Zimmerman.
Festivities include live music, a food truck roundup, a beer garden and children’s activities .
“This is a huge party and the social engagement component is bigger than any other run that I am aware of around Tucson,” Ross Zimmerman said. “To Randy’s credit, he has done a great job of attracting people to come out and do the course who might not otherwise come.
“It is one thing to preach to the choir and get the usual suspects, but it is another to get other people to come out and encourage them to change their behavior and their lives by doing something like this. He has turned it into a festival instead of just a run and I am hopeful that people enjoy the experience enough that they keep doing it.”
The details:
What: The first race of the Gabe Zimmerman Triple Crown
When: Saturday, May 27. Registration and expo at 5 p.m.; 5K Run and Walk at 7 p.m.; After-party at Hotel Congress at 8 p.m.
Where: Children’s Museum Tucson, 200 S. Sixth Ave.
Cost: $35 per person for the 5K Fun Run and Walk through race weekend; $99 per person for the Gabe Zimmerman Triple Crown, which includes the 5K on Saturday, the Inaugural TMC Tucson 10K on Sunday, Sept. 17; and the TMC-Get Moving Tucson Half Marathon and 5K on Sunday, Oct. 29. (Entry fee includes a shirt for each race, three race medals and a 2017 Triple Crown Run Tucson shirt).
— Loni Nannini
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Tombstone comes alive (even moreso) this weekend as Wyatt Earp Days gets underway.
Among the activities will be the Second Annual Beard and Mustache Competition this Saturday, which will hand out prizes for best beard, best mustache, best freestyle and best Wyatt Earp.
If your face is covered in fur, this one's for you. $20 entry fee.
If you are clean-shaven, you can catch the competition at 4 p.m.
More information can be found on the Facebook event page.
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Button Brew House, soon to be at 6800 N. Camino Martin, is reaching the end of the line for its Kickstarter campaign, with more than $6,000 required to help Todd and Erika put the finishing touches on their facility.
That seems like a tall order, but we've seen breweries achieve more with less time.
In honor of their mad dash to the finish, Catalina Brewing Company, at 6918 N. Camino Martin, will be hosting a Kickstarter finale event for the Buttons this Saturday, in the hopes of finishing strong.
There will be three collaborations on tap, according to the Facebook page:
- Button Brew House with 1912 Brewing Co "Arizona Oasis" Hoppy American Wheat
- Button Brew House with Catalina Brewing Company #InaIsOpen India Red Ale
- Button Brew House with Dillinger Brewing Company "Early Brew Special" Coffee Pale Ale
The event runs from 2 p.m. to 6 p.m. Luke's Pizza will be providing the eats. In the meantime, you can donate here.
This isn't a regular found footage viewing party.
This is the best of the best.
Nick Prueher and Joe Pickett return to Tucson with their Found Footage Festival this Saturday, with a lineup of VHS material scoured from thrift stores, yard sales and garbage bins around the country (according to the Facebook event page).
More details from the page:
Found Footage Festival: Volume 8 highlights include a collection of satanic panic videos from the 80s, including “The Law Enforcement Guide to Satanic Cults”; a star-studded Desert Storm parade sponsored by Taco Bell; outtakes and on-air bloopers from over ten years of North Dakota local news; and selections from David Letterman’s Video Collection, inherited by the Found Footage Festival when Dave retired.
The event starts at 8 p.m. at the Rialto Theatre, downtown. Tickets are $8-$10.
Comedy duo Cheech Marin and Tommy Chong return to Tucson this Saturday, for a show at Casino del Sol that will most likely reflect on their iconic careers, break out some of their classic material and produce a full evening of marijuana jokes.
The nationwide tour comes at a time when both Cheech and Chong are pretty busy.
Marin just entered into an agreement with the city of Riverside, Calif., to house his Chicano art collection in one of its downtown buildings.
And a documentary on the two is in its final stages of production.
Cheech and Chong take the stage at 8 p.m.
More information can be found on Casino del Sol's website.
The Loft, 3233 E. Speedway, is purging its current inventory of film posters with a sale this Saturday from 8 a.m to 11 a.m.
Posters will be $5 apiece.
Here is what they will be offering, according to the Facebook event page:
– Current posters of films that have ended their run during the month.
– Miscellaneous Film posters of films we did not show.
– Over 100 posters (at least 50 titles) from our current poster inventory.
In the past six years, Randy Accetta and a group of supporters have transformed the Gabe Zimmerman Triple Crown into a trifecta for Tucson.
“I am a fan of Aristotle, who believed that healthy minds and healthy bodies create healthy citizenry. If I can do my part to make people healthier through fitness and raise funds in support of cultural, educational and social organizations, then I think I am making our city better,” said Accetta, director of the three-race event that will kick off with the 11th Annual TMC Meet Me Downtown 5K Night Run and Walk this Saturday at the Children’s Museum Tucson, 200 S. Sixth Ave.
Created to commemorate native Tucsonan Gabe Zimmerman, a lifelong runner and avid outdoorsman who was killed in the shooting of then-Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords in January 2011, the races have raised more than $150,000 for Child and Family Resources and other local charities.
Proceeds from the 2017 event will benefit the Children’s Museum Tucson, Tucson Symphony Orchestra, Educational Enrichment Foundation, Living Streets Alliance, Greater Tucson Leadership, Southern Arizona Roadrunners, Sonoran Desert Mountain Bicyclists and Beyond-Tucson Foundation, which was founded by Zimmerman’s father, Ross, as a single day of health-related outdoor activities designed to help the community move forward and heal after the shooting. That day has expanded into a year-round, commitment to individual and community wellness through the foundation and a coalition of partners including hospitals, health organizations, environmental advocacy groups and others.
Accetta said the Gabe Zimmerman Triple Crown segues perfectly with the foundation’s “Rx Formula” for optimal health, which is comprised of four pillars — explore nature, move regularly, nourish with healthy food and connect with one another as a community.
He emphasized that the intent was to provide a full calendar year of opportunity for progressive physical activity through the race series, beginning with a 5K and building to a 10K and then a half-marathon.
“Any number of medical experts will tell you that if you move for 10 minutes a day, you will have a healthier life, whether you just walk around the block or run a race,” Accetta said. “Races like this are great since setting a goal to go one mile can get you out the door when you don’t want to go. We want people to set a goal and be a part of something and change their lives and meet new people and go to new places. By walking or running, you can do all of that.”
In an additional effort to facilitate consistent activity and encourage community engagement, the foundation has instituted Beyond Challenge, which provides a card featuring incentives, discounts and prizes from merchants.
“This is about setting an intention, whether it be to spend more time with your kids outdoors or to complete a 5K or make healthy changes to your diet,” said Michelle Crow, director of the Beyond-Tucson Foundation. “You can sign up for the challenge and participate in various activities to win prizes, so it is a concrete way to help people achieve their goals.”
More information about Beyond Challenge and other free foundation health initiatives — including a 16-week walking study by Dequenesh Community Health that will begin Aug. 31 — is available from 4 to 7 p.m. every Thursday through September at the Santa Cruz River Farmers’ Market, 100 S. Avenida del Convento.
“We are doing controlled studies in terms not just of physical health, but mental health and social well-being since each affects the other,” Crow said.
The social element is at the forefront of the TMC Meet Me Downtown 5K Night Run and Walk, which welcomes runners and walkers of all ages and abilities, according to Ross Zimmerman.
Festivities include live music, a food truck roundup, a beer garden and children’s activities .
“This is a huge party and the social engagement component is bigger than any other run that I am aware of around Tucson,” Ross Zimmerman said. “To Randy’s credit, he has done a great job of attracting people to come out and do the course who might not otherwise come.
“It is one thing to preach to the choir and get the usual suspects, but it is another to get other people to come out and encourage them to change their behavior and their lives by doing something like this. He has turned it into a festival instead of just a run and I am hopeful that people enjoy the experience enough that they keep doing it.”
The details:
What: The first race of the Gabe Zimmerman Triple Crown
When: Saturday, May 27. Registration and expo at 5 p.m.; 5K Run and Walk at 7 p.m.; After-party at Hotel Congress at 8 p.m.
Where: Children’s Museum Tucson, 200 S. Sixth Ave.
Cost: $35 per person for the 5K Fun Run and Walk through race weekend; $99 per person for the Gabe Zimmerman Triple Crown, which includes the 5K on Saturday, the Inaugural TMC Tucson 10K on Sunday, Sept. 17; and the TMC-Get Moving Tucson Half Marathon and 5K on Sunday, Oct. 29. (Entry fee includes a shirt for each race, three race medals and a 2017 Triple Crown Run Tucson shirt).
— Loni Nannini
Tombstone comes alive (even moreso) this weekend as Wyatt Earp Days gets underway.
Among the activities will be the Second Annual Beard and Mustache Competition this Saturday, which will hand out prizes for best beard, best mustache, best freestyle and best Wyatt Earp.
If your face is covered in fur, this one's for you. $20 entry fee.
If you are clean-shaven, you can catch the competition at 4 p.m.
More information can be found on the Facebook event page.
Button Brew House, soon to be at 6800 N. Camino Martin, is reaching the end of the line for its Kickstarter campaign, with more than $6,000 required to help Todd and Erika put the finishing touches on their facility.
That seems like a tall order, but we've seen breweries achieve more with less time.
In honor of their mad dash to the finish, Catalina Brewing Company, at 6918 N. Camino Martin, will be hosting a Kickstarter finale event for the Buttons this Saturday, in the hopes of finishing strong.
There will be three collaborations on tap, according to the Facebook page:
- Button Brew House with 1912 Brewing Co "Arizona Oasis" Hoppy American Wheat
- Button Brew House with Catalina Brewing Company #InaIsOpen India Red Ale
- Button Brew House with Dillinger Brewing Company "Early Brew Special" Coffee Pale Ale
The event runs from 2 p.m. to 6 p.m. Luke's Pizza will be providing the eats. In the meantime, you can donate here.
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